For the 6th time, the Sustainable Top 100 Destinations competition is organised to showcase sustainable tourism stories and good practices of local and regional destinations, as inspiring examples to others, to tour operators and to travelers.

Destinations benefit from participation by using the online platform of the GSTC-Recognised Green Destinations Standard, which enables for GSTC-Accredited certification. Using the Green Destinations criteria and the online platform helps in enhancing tourism sustainability, in avoiding overtourism and in building local community support. It also helps making tourism more profitable, by alerting destinations on hidden costs connected to tourism development.
By publishing an annual list and by sharing destination management good practices and success stories, the initiators wish to acknowledge initiatives making tourism destinations more sustainable, responsible and more attractive from a visitor experience point of view.

2020 Top 100 destinations qualify for the Sustainable Top 100 Destinations Awards to be presented at Global Green Destinations Days in Spring 2021 in Bodrum, Turkey.